Word: crafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clashes, 150 rebels and 60 royal soldiers were killed. Held off on land, the Crown Prince commandeered smugglers' craft in Tangier harbor 175 miles awa)', hired a British-owned ferryboat, and landed troops at Alhucemas by sea. Commercial aircraft of Royal Air Maroc were pressed into service to transport supplies, despite the protests of the French pilots who were forced to fly them...
...intensely personal of writers, it was a bold--and unique--departure into objectivity. It has none of his trademarks: it is neither florid nor lyrical nor autobiographical; not even Welsh. By rights, such a first experiment should be an unplayable mess, hinting vaguely at possible successes if the new craft could be mastered. But, amazingly, it is alive and viable, and occasion to mourn the greatness of the plays that must surely have died unwritten with their author...
Secret Life. Craft's affinity for modern music dates back almost as far as he can remember. Born in Kingston. N.Y., into a nonmusical family (his father is a real estate broker), he became a boy soprano in the Episcopal Church when he was six. By the time he was packed off to New York Military Academy at Cornwall, 13-year-old Robert Craft was an avid collector of modern scores, spent his spare time poring over copies of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps and Les Noces, Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. Says Craft: "I led a kind...
...trumpeter with Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall orchestra while studying at Juilliard, later formed a professional music group called the Chamber Art Society. In 1947 Stravinsky offered to conduct one of his works for the group. "That's the mystery of my life," says Craft. "I still don't know why he did it." At Stravinsky's invitation, Craft returned with him to Los Angeles as a music secretary, gradually became Stravinsky's professional alter...
Admired Rival. Craft has become so familiar with Stravinsky's musical thinking (he meets with him twice a day) that he has conducted the first performances of works such as Agon and In Memoriam Dylan Thomas. Some day he hopes to write a comprehensive book about Stravinsky, "this incredibly fresh man." But, he adds, "It is not yet time; he is not finished...